[9fans] GSoC: student applications are in

2014-03-22 Thread Anthony Sorace
Folks: The student application period has now closed. We got 12 applications total, exactly double what we got last year. More importantly, we've got some really high quality ones in different areas of the system. Given GSoC's primary goal of creating new contributors, I'm particularly happ

[9fans] KF|12, etc

2014-03-22 Thread erik quanstrom
as i mentioned before, these definitions are puzzling: Kleft= KF|0x11, Kright= KF|0x12, these overlap with f11 and f12. since f11-f24 are all defined, wouldn't it make more sense to move Kleft, etc. out of the way? - erik

Re: [9fans] KF|12, etc

2014-03-22 Thread cinap_lenrek
this is hexadecimal. KF|1 .. KF|0xC -> F1 .. F12. not sure tho about F13-F24. never seen a keyboard like that. -- cinap

Re: [9fans] KF|12, etc

2014-03-22 Thread Erik Quanstrom
example: apple USB full sized kbd. f13 doesn't work. it has up to f18 USB does define these keys. cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: >this is hexadecimal. KF|1 .. KF|0xC -> F1 .. F12. >not sure tho about F13-F24. never seen a keyboard >like that. > >-- >cinap > >

Re: [9fans] KF|12, etc

2014-03-22 Thread erik quanstrom
also, i mix up kbd.c with /sys/include/keyboard.h. sorry. why keyboard.h uses hex is beyond me. nobody ever says press the f0xa key. kbd.c has the more sensible Home= KF|13, /* failure of vision; collides with f keys */ Up= KF|14, Pgup=

Re: [9fans] KF|12, etc

2014-03-22 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 22 March 2014 20:03, erik quanstrom wrote: > > Kleft= KF|0x11, > Kright= KF|0x12, I suspect it was meant to describe a new internal sequence of values in the 0x1x range, which wasn't thought to be used.

Re: [9fans] KF|12, etc

2014-03-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> I suspect it was meant to describe a new internal sequence of values in the > 0x1x range, which wasn't thought to be used. i ment the question in terms of how to we fix it in a coordinated way. it's not just the f keys, but there are other keys that are common these days that seem useful. - e